Huafeng Liu

Huafeng Liu received the B.S. degree in optical engineering in 1995, the M.S. degree in measurement techniques and instruments in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in positron emission tomography in 2001, all from the Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China from 2001 to 2003, working on statistical filtering and inverse mechanics strategies for cardiac image analysis and PET image reconstruction. He is currently a full professor at Zhejiang University. He is currently the director of the ZJU-HAMAMATSU Joint Photonics lab, which was cofounded by Hamamatsu Photonics K. K. and the Department of Optic-Electronic Information Engineering, Zhejiang University in 1995. Since then, his lab has focused on biomedical imaging instrumentation (PET), image reconstruction (PET, fMRI, ECG) and medical image analysis.

Contributions

The prominent advantage of meshfree method, is the way to build the representation of computational domain, based on the nodal points without any explicit meshing connectivity. Therefore, meshfree method can conveniently process the numerical computation inside interested domains with large deformation or inhomogeneity. In this paper, we adopt the idea of meshfree representation into cardiac medical image analysis in order to overcome the difficulties caused by large deformation and inhomogeneous materials of the heart.